The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 228
ational or generic name for writing desks of allkinds. In the first or French part of his French-English dictionary, published in 1699, Boyer definedthe word bureau as follows : Bureau, {Espece deTable a plusieurs tiroirs & Tablettes) a Chest ofDrawers, a Serutorr Boyer was familiar with… … Fig. 50SCRUTOIRMade in the year DESKS 127 of furniture like the scrutoir were called bureaus inFrance as early as 1699. The new French name for the scrutoir, in what-ever manner received, soon found its way to Englandand this country, and into the records as above de-scribed. Were, then, these…
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